The contract is part of Artemis program's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative— to deploy privately built lunar landers to study the moon's surface before people land there in future.
The sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for 'twilight', were captured by Curiosity on 2 February, as the rays of the setting Sun lit up a bank of clouds.
The team will spend around 6 months on the ISS conducting more than 200 experiments like researching human cell growth in space & controlling combustible materials in microgravity.
The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule called Endeavour, lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Indian private space sector saw series of missions & launches. Meanwhile, NASA carried out a successful planetary defence experiment by knocking an asteroid's moon off course.
Since it landed on Mars in 2018, InSight has detected over a thousand seismic events, with at least 50 of them providing signs clear enough to derive new information about the red planet.
Sound of surface storm, a frequent weather phenomenon on Mars, was recorded as it passed over NASA's Perseverance rover last year. Findings published in Nature Communications.
India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.
New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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